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title: Reynaud said, "My lord King, if you had my three brothers in your po… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 17

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Reynaud said, "My lord King, if you had my three brothers in your power, and were about to hang them, even then would I not deliver Mawgis to you.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, you · **What happens:** say, have, be, hang, not deliver · **To what, where:** three brothers, power, Barons, Mawgis, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:11:17
# text = Reynaud said, "My lord King, if you had my three brothers in your power, and were about to hang them, even then would I not deliver Mawgis to you.
1	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	deliver	deliver	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
32	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Reynaud |  |  |  |  | My lord *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you | my three brothers |  | your power |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hang** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Barons *= baron* |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **deliver** *in a quote* | would | Reynaud | Mawgis | you |  | then |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mawgis=Theme to you=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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